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From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder)
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Subject: Re: Voyager, on to Uranus.
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 15:08:52 EDT
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> > 
> > So again, nine years later, "Where's it going?"
> 
> Nowhere.  It is not pointing anywhere near the nearest stars.  By the time
> it gets very far all the stars will have moved.  We have no idea where it
> might end up, but odds are that it will never pass close to another
> "Don't argue with a fool.      Ethan Vishniac
>  Borrow his money."            {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
>                                Department of Astronomy
>                                University of Texas

     I believe you are correct that it will never pass close to another
planetary system but for a different reason.  Long before it will get
anywhere significant at all in interstellar terms, someone will go and retrieve
it to put it in the Smithsonian.

     Dani Eder
     Boeing Aerospace Company.
	Advanced Space Transportation Organization